The Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR) have grown rapidly in developed, secularizing societies. We hypothesize that one reason for the proliferation of the SBNR is that spiritual beliefs, distinct from religiosity, afford some degree of meaning in life to people leaving religion. In...

Centriole and/or cilium defects are characteristic of cancer cells and have been linked to cancer cell invasion. However, the mechanistic bases of this regulation remain incompletely understood. Spindle assembly abnormal protein 6 homolog (SAS-6) is essential for centriole biogenesis and cil...

This paper analyses monthly data on sea ice cover extent from January 1979 to April 2024 and on snow cover extent from January 1967 to April 2024 for various regions of the world using fractional integration methods. A statistically significant time trend is found when th...

This work studies the sparse adaptive filter designs for audio signal recovery in the presence of impulsive disturbance. By exploiting the sparse representation of desired signal and compressibility of impulsive disturbance, a joint sparse least mean p-norm (JSLMP) optimization, in which ℓp-...

The performance of personal sound systems is often degraded by inaccurate acoustic measurements. To achieve robust control while balancing acoustic contrast and signal distortion, this work proposes a robust hybrid optimization method that exploits both acoustic contrast control and pressure matc...

Aluminium alloys are cost-effective and lightweight materials that are widely used in the transport industry, where cost and weight are key considerations for material selection. Operating at elevated temperatures (T ≥ 0.5Tm, where Tm is the absolute melting temperature of Al) is known&...

The synergistic interaction between freeze–thaw cycles and sulfate attack induces a more severe and complex deterioration mechanism in concrete than either factor in isolation. This review elucidates this process by first examining the individual damage mechanisms and then integrating current res...

This paper presents a numerical analysis of CO₂ injection well integrity, focusing on degradation of cement sheath bonds with the casing and caprock. The cement sheath and caprock are modelled as thermo-poroelastic materials subject to coupled thermal, hydraulic, and mechanical behaviour. De...

Foldable electronics with high thermal stability, flexibility and stretchability enable emerging applications such as soft robotics, electronic skins, human–machine interfaces, and foldable displays. This study presents a detailed thermo-mechanical characterization and modeling of Beyolex™, a recently developed ...